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TIL that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant 600 light-years from Earth, will explode within the next 100,000 years, producing a supernova visible during the day.

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VMJRG TIL in 2015 a call center in NY was infested with bedbugs. The workers unwittingly brought them home. The company demanded the workers pay to have their own homes fumigated and prove it before returning to work. They were also sited by OSHA for conducting fumigation during work hours.
LkDwV TIL that according to OK Cupid, asking "do you like the taste of beer" is the single best predictor among men and women if he or she has sex on the first date.
J1D8B TIL During WWII Coca-Cola dispatched technical observers, nicknamed Coca Cola Colonels, to the frontlines to set up bottling plants to supply soldiers with their soda. They ended up establishing 64 bottling lines during the war.
obaR TIL that Eugene Debs ran for the presidency in 1920 while in prison and received more than 900,000 votes
j6J4E TIL in the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a local style of accordion folk music known as Famo has sprung a fierce bloody gang war which has contributed to its high homicide rate. Little-known to the outside world, scores of musicians and hundreds of DJs, fans, family members etc. have been slain.